Jake Arrieta Quotes
If people call into question my work ethic, that's fine, because I know what I'm doing behind the scenes.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They're great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we're going to see amazing things from them.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.
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I wanted to be a comedian.
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I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.
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When I am about to have a difficult project, I dream I am climbing a mountain. When everything is going fine, I dream I am going down the mountain.
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Powerful people never educate powerless people in what they need that they can use to take the power away from powerful people; it's too much to expect. If I was in power, I would not educate people in how to take my powers away.
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If people call into question my work ethic, that's fine, because I know what I'm doing behind the scenes.
